Trivia Bits 04 January

 

• US band Blondie released in 1978 an album called Parallel Lines.
• Capulet and Montague are the last names of characters in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.
• The capital of Alaska is Juneau.
• Tinnitus is the term of the condition which involves hearing a persistent ringing in the ears.
• Because of its distance from the Sea and it’s predominately desert climate Chad is known as the “dead heart of Africa”.
• Only female mosquitoes bite humans.
• Won 20 is the base currency of both North and South Korea.
• The newspaper with the world’s highest circulation is Yomiuri Shimbun from Japan.
• The two main ingredients in the Serbian relish ajvar are red capsicum and eggplant.
• John Travolta’s character in the 1994 American crime film Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino was Vincent Vega.